T4T Gr 3 C1 C4 Task- Glue for Tables
This is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. This task is intended to be used with Clusters 1 and 4.
Task
The art teacher has 40 bottles of glue. She needs to give same number of bottles to each table of students. There are less than 11 tables and more than 3 tables. How many tables will she need to seat students at so that she can share the glue equally?
Use pictures and/or numbers to show your thinking. You may use manipulatives to model the task.
What would happen if she had 7 tables? Could she distribute them evenly?
Write a sentence explaining how you used manipulatives to solve this task.